Not transparent

It's taken months for the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (cough) to finally announce to the public that the suspicious large plume and suspected fracture cited beneath the corner of a massive hog waste lagoon at C&H Hog Farms apparently contains nothing overly foul. Continue reading...

Buffalo hearing

More than 100 showed up at the Don Nelms fine art gallery in Jasper last week to raise funds in support of our Buffalo National River. Some came from families who've lived five generations in the Buffalo watershed. Continue reading...

To the president-elect

Dear Mr. Donald J. Trump: First I want to say your resounding victory, while most likely saving the nation I grew up loving, cost me two steak dinners in a bet with my retiree friend Hank Thompson. He (and Pat Flippo) predicted months ago that Hillary would never become president.
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Thought I'd let some smoke clear before weighing in on the statewide controversy over six Lady Razorback basketball players on the team who locked arms and knelt as our nation's national anthem was played at a recent exhibition game. Continue reading...

Shaping opinions

A record number of Americans for years have viewed the news media as immoral, inaccurate and biased, according to a 2011 poll. And I believe the public disgust has grown worse in 2016 as we've witnessed accelerating bias in news reporting amid the mainstream media our nation relies on for objective, factual information. Continue reading...